Military Aircraft

Angus Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the availability rate was of each TriStar aircraft in each of the last 12 months.

Nick Harvey: The available information is shown in the following table. The figures represent the average number of airframes from each TriStar variant available in the forward fleet during each month of 2010. The forward fleet comprises aircraft which are serviceable and those which are short-term unserviceable.
	
		
			  Tri S tar forward fleet 
			   C2  KC1  K1 
			 January 2 2.9 0 
			 February 1.9 2.5 0 
			 March 1.9 2.9 0.5 
			 April 2 3.3 1 
			 May 1 3.8 0.7 
			 June 1 3.8 0.9 
			 July 0.8 3.9 1 
			 August 1 4 1 
			 September 1 4 1 
			 October 1 4 0 
			 November 1.4 2.8 0.7 
			 December 1.6 2.3 1